Metallothionein: A new soldier in the fight against chronic renal hypoxia?

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-259

  Bauer, Reinhard ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DETOXIFICATION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HYPOXIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; METAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

EID: 58349088356     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.590     Document Type: Note

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